Ex-Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak considers another bite

INVENTOR OF THE APPLE PC Steve Wozniak would consider going back to Apple to play an active role on the board and encourage it to be more open.

Wozniak was at a computer conference in Blighty when he confessed that he would consider working at Apple again after leaving in the late 1980s.

"I'd consider it, yeah," Wozniak said, according to Reuters. Although Woz does not work at Apple anymore, he is still on the payroll.

He hasn't represented the company in the public eye for some time. The timing comes as Apple's CEO Steve Jobs is out of action on his third medical leave and looking forward to his biography, iSteve: The Book of Jobs, which is coming out in 2012.

Wozniak built the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s and is still friends with Jobs, but, he is known for speaking his honest opinions. If he took and active role at the company again, his views might be critical of the increasingly closed operations and ever more proprietary, closed systems that dominate Apple's hardware, software and services.